From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,344332f209947007 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: Gnat Free ? Date: 1998/10/19 Message-ID: <70g7r6$42a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 402912339 References: <6volj0$250$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <3620F843.39465221@home.com> <3621E42C.2920@Entenhausen.net> <700rfc$6h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3627196D.720A@Entenhausen.net> <708040$4h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <87pvbs6zb3.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> <708n5d$7ds$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <70bgao$j7i$1@news.hal-pc.org> <70e04a$7bc$1@news.hal-pc.org> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 209.73.133.253 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Oct 19 20:35:49 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > it probably isn't worthwhile to update the GNAT source at all between GNAT > releases because of changes to Gnu C, and that the changes to the Gnu C patch > file would necessarily be released some time after the version of Gnu C which > they patch, but Gnu C V2.8.1 has been out for seven months and (to my > knowledge---I quit looking in May) no patch file for has been made for it. Right, to our knowledge, no one has created a patch file for version 3.10 and GCC 2.8.1. At least at ACT, we have never built version 3.10 with GCC 2.8.1, because 3.10 technology was baselined at GCC 2.7. Yes, it would be possible to create a new version of GNAT by combining GNAT 3.10 with GCC 2.8, but this is work we simply do not do, because we prefer to put our efforts into developing the subsequent release. We would far rather see 3.11 out sooner, than make updated versions of 3.10 (for most people the gain in going from GCC 2.7 to GCC 2.8 with GNAT 3.10 is insigificant). Note that to a first approximation, no patches should be needed for GNAT 3.10 under GCC 2.8. That is because all GNAT patches are, as I previously noted, included in GCC immediately. However, there are lots of other patches and fixes in GCC 2.8 that may introduce regressions etc in GNAT 3.10, and we simply have never tested this combination. Basically our strategy is, as I mentioned before, to baseline each new release of GNAT on the current release of GCC, with an appropriate minimal patch file to correct any known problems. For example, GNAT version 3.11 is based on GCC version 2.8 with an appropriate patch file. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own